Meaning & use
amaze
To fill someone with great surprise, wonder, or astonishment.
See it in a sentence
The magician's final trick amazed everyone sitting in the audience.
It always amazes me how quickly young children manage to learn new languages.
A note on using this word
Amaze is commonly used in the passive, as in 'I was amazed,' or with an impersonal subject, as in 'it amazes me that...'
Words with a similar meaning
astonishastound
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Words with an opposite meaning
bore
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